Obviously I am referring to a glass melting and winding technique and you are probably precisely right, as I have no idea how they melted the glass- if it be by a "lamp" or however. But I am fairly sure it "looks" lamp wound as opposed to a variety of other things such as molded.

This article and the following mutations, as in the BBC News and others I think suffer from Poor Translation and also a need for sensationalism in a competitive news environment

What was interesting I thought was the obvious Trade mixture, which is not surprising, but there are a lot of interesting trinkets stashed in that wooden box.

Bead lover, collector since Age 15, semi-retired had wholesale/retail bead, folk art, tribal art store Lost and Found Gallery for 25 yrs. in DT Greensboro, NC